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Pietro Monte's Collectanea - The Arms, Armour and Fighting Techniques of a Fifteenth-Century Soldier (Hardcover)
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Pietro Monte's Collectanea - The Arms, Armour and Fighting Techniques of a Fifteenth-Century Soldier (Hardcover)
Series: Armour and Weapons
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First translation into English of a wide-ranging military treatise
from the late middle ages. Pietro Monte's Collectanea is a
wide-ranging treatise on the arts of knighthood, focusing on
martial arts, athletics, arms and armour, and military practice,
but touching on subjects as diverse as diet, zoology and the design
of life preservers. Monte, a courtier, soldier and scholar who won
the respect of men like Leonardo da Vinci and Baldesar Castiglione,
wrote the work in Spanish in the late 1400s, and later produced an
expanded Latin translation. The Latin version, published in Milan
in 1509, forms the basis of this translation. Monte describes the
techniques of personal combat with various weapons, including the
two-handed and one-handed sword, pollaxe, and dagger, as well as
wrestling, armored and mounted combat. He also documents the
athletic activities used by knights to hone their physical
abilities: running, jumping, throwing, and vaulting. Finally, the
Collectanea is the solemedieval text to provide extensive
discussion of the design of arms and armour. This translation
includes an illustrated introduction to Monte and his technical
subject-matter, as well as a translation of Book 5 of Monte's De
Dignoscendis Hominibus (1492), which overlaps much of the technical
content of the Collectanea. JEFFREY L. FORGENG is curator of Arms
and Armour and Medieval Art at the Worcester Art Museum, and
teaches as Adjunct Professor of History at Worcester Polytechnic
Institute.
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